sorry for the late and terse response, I hope that I'll have more time
after christmas to actually implement some of these decisions...
Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org> writes:
> RT> I'd suggest this:
>> RT> * maintainer is set to
> RT> pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>> How should the team's name look like? The full maintainer field
> currently looks like:
>> Debian multimedia packages maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> which is a bit long. What about trimming it to
>> Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Good point, yes, let's use that
>> RT> * pkg-multimedia gets an git repository (Felipe, please request
> RT> one and start moving the packages. btw, is it possible to
> RT> redirect the old locations to the new ones? - I don't think so,
> RT> but you never know)
>> This probably goes without saying, but I would include the tags:
>> Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/PACKAGE.git> Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/PACKAGE.git>> in all debian/control files.
yes, sounds reasonable.
> RT> These points should be seen as proposed clarification to
> RT> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Merge>> RT> The selling argument was (I think) that debian-multimedia.org
> RT> already exists and is well known, but has no relationship to
> RT> demudi, which in fact even predates debian-multimedia.
>> Yeah, sad to have to say goodbye to Debian Multimedia (the Debian
> one), I feel that name was quite easy and catchy. Anyway the important
> thing to me is to get a well maintained package set.
Indeed.
merry christmas!
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